Mask "nalindele" ·  Angola, Luena · ID: 3034751

Description

wood, rattan bonnet, covered with sacking and set with an abundant wig of plant fibre, strings of glass beads at the parting, “chijingo”-scarification marks on forehead and cheeks, “mupila” beside the eyes, min. dam.;
the light skin colour, rejected by some in favour of darker tones, evidently corresponds to an ideal of beauty espoused by some carvers and audiences.

The object Mask “nalindele” with the object ID 3034751 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 440.

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Comparing literature

Felix, Marc L., Jordan, Manuel, Makishi Lya Zambia, München 1998, p. 168